by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.26.2023|5:30pm Hall Of Fame Trainer Leatherbury Honored On 90th Birthday At Laurel Park Surrounded by family, friends, racing officials, and fans, legendary Hall of Fame horseman King T. Leatherbury was remembered with a sign and special etched crystal trophy by the Maryland Jockey Club Sunday at Laurel Park to commemorate his 90th birthday. Georganne Hale, the first woman to serve as racing secretary at a major North American […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.26.2023|1:34pm Laurino Captures MJC Champions Handicapping Tournament Anthony Laurino of Raleigh, N.C. finished with a balance of $3,502 to top a field of 146 entrants and capture the Maryland Jockey Club’s Champions Handicapping Tournament held Saturday at Laurel Park. The spring edition of the bi-annual Champions Tournament was hosted in Laurel’s refurbished second-floor clubhouse sports bar, open to players for a fee […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.19.202303.19.2023|6:38pm6:43pm Carrasco Sixth In Return To Riding Sunday At Laurel Nearly 4½ months after being injured in a spill at Laurel Park, journeyman Victor Carrasco made his long-awaited return to the races Sunday. Carrasco, 30, finished sixth aboard Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds’ Libraryofcongress, a first-time starter for trainer Graham Motion, in Race 6, a seven-furlong maiden claimer for 3-year-olds. As a Maryland-bred, the Honor Code colt […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.18.2023|6:35pm Hayes Strike Surges Clear Late In Private Terms; Lady Lowery Wires Beyond The Wire Dixiana Farms’ homebred Grade 2-placed homebred Hayes Strike, back on dirt after a failed attempt on the synthetic, cruised up to front-running Coffeewithchris at the top of the stretch and outran the multiple stakes winner to the wire to capture Saturday’s $100,000 Private Terms at Laurel Park. The 34th running of the Private Terms at […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.18.202303.20.2023|5:04pm10:56am Nimitz Class Draws Off In Harrison E. Johnson For Third Successive Stakes Win At Laurel Bred and based in Pennsylvania, Thomas Coulter’s Nimitz Class has made Maryland his home away from home, rolling to a third consecutive stakes victory at Laurel Park with a popular 6¼-length triumph in Saturday’s $100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial. The 35th running of the one-mile Harrison Johnson for 4-year-olds and up was one of five […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.17.2023|5:08pm Riderless ‘Second’ In Gotham, Howgreatisnate Gets Class, Distance Test In Laurel’s Private Terms Racing fans that watched the Gotham (G3) earlier this month at Aqueduct came away impressed with the way Imaginary Stables’ Howgreatisnate ran, crossing the wire second after having won each of his first four races, two of them in stakes. Thing is, it didn’t count. Howgreatisnate stumbled badly leaving the gate, losing rider J.D. Acosta, […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.17.2023|5:05pm ‘It’s A Huge Day’: Jaime Rodriguez Rides Record-Tying Seven Winners Friday At Laurel Paul Fowler Jr.’s 4-year-old gelding Shaft’s Bullett rolled to a popular victory in Friday’s Race 8 feature at Laurel Park to complete a record-tying seven-win day for jockey Jaime Rodriguez. Rodriguez, 32, tied Horacio Karamanos and Chuck Baltazar for the most wins on a single card at Laurel. Baltazar rode seven straight winners Dec. 15, […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.16.2023|3:42pm General George Winner Eastern Bay Returns In Not For Love; Robb-Trained Stablemates Top Conniver Built Wright Stables’ millionaire Eastern Bay, emotional winner of the General George (G3) Feb. 18, returns to Laurel Park chasing his 20th career victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Not For Love, a six-furlong sprint restricted to older Maryland-bred/sired horses. The 9-year-old Eastern Bay had run second in each of his first three graded-stakes attempts – the […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.16.2023|3:40pm ‘He Knows He’s Home’: Hello Hot Rod Back In Brittany Russell’s Care For Harrison Johnson Brittany Russell didn’t have to think twice when owner George Sharp reached out a couple months back to ask if the Maryland’s two-time defending trainer of the year had room for one more horse. “It was really cool, actually. George called me and said, ‘Hey I’m thinking of sending you a horse,’ and I said, […]
by Maryland Jockey Club Press Office|03.15.2023|4:53pm Coffeewithchris Stretches Out In Laurel’s Next Stakes For 3-Year-Olds His connections will get a further indication of how far Coffeewithchris wants to go when their multiple stakes-winning sophomore attempts two turns for the first time in Saturday’s $100,000 Private Terms at Laurel Park. The 34th running of the Private Terms at about 1 1/16 miles is the next step in Laurel’s series of stakes […]